There he attended the elocution classes, and a role was given to him to learn in which he had to say: "How do you do, Papa Dugrand!"

How many dancing lessons, music lessons, elocution lessons have you taken?

It began with the prize winners of the elocution competition delivering their speeches-one in English and the others in Marathi and Kannada.

Fate wings with ev'ry wish th' afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art; With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal sweetness elocution flows, Impeachment stops the speaker's pow'rful breath, And restless fire precipitates on death.

Her life was rather a dreary one, as the life of an elocution teacher may well be.